related works
Transparent Waves : for two pianos and two percussionists / Douglas Knehans
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Mixed ensemble (2-12 players)
Scoring:
2pf 2perc
Groet der martelaren : hymne voor baryton & orkest / Guillaume Landré
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and orchestra
Scoring:
bar 3222 4231 timp perc str
Song and dance : for soprano and orchestra / Ronald Ford; text: Ottavio Rinuccini
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and orchestra
Scoring:
sopr 2fl 2ob 2cl 2fg 2h 2trp perc hp pf str
Canti di Michelangelo : per basso ed orchestra / Hugo Wolf; arr. by Karel Mengelberg
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and orchestra
Scoring:
bas 2222 2200 timp hp str
composition
Cloud Ossuary : Symphony Nº 4 for soprano and orchestra / Douglas Knehans; words by Katarina Knehans
Author(s):
Knehans, Katarina
(Text writer/Librettist)
Knehans, Douglas
(Composer)
Description:
Cloud Ossuary began as a setting of my daughter’s riveting and poignant poem Bones and All. When I first read this work, I was seized with an immediate desire to set it to music. So, almost as immediately I did indeed get to work on it.
The Ossein Cage, composed after the two movements that follow it, uses the same harmonic architecture as both subsequent movements, while Breathe Clouded is actually an inverted and compressed version of Bones and All. Thus, the whole of Cloud Ossuary sits as three different guises of the same material and structural approach, though with clear and dramatically different surfaces.
Douglas Knehans